How 'models' were quantised in the 19th century: British Library dataset

vanstriendaniel · x · 2026-08-19

A pun on model quantisation pointing to the biglam/british-library-book-images dataset on Hugging Face: 1M+ historical book images (covers, plates, embellishments) from the British Library, spanning 1628–1925, released under CC0. A fun open resource for digital humanities.

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